Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

Anderson profoundly changed the American short story, transforming it from light, popular entertainment into literature of the highest quality. His art belonged as much to an oral as a written tradition, and, as this collection shows, the best of his stories echo the language and the pace of a man talking to his friends. They explore with penetrating compassion the isolation of the individual and capture the emotional undercurrents hidden beneath ordinary events.

"When he calls himself a 'poor scribbler' don't believe himHe is not a poor scribbler . . . he is a very great writer."--Ernest Hemingway

"Winesburg, Ohio, when it first appeared, kept me up a whole night in a steady crescendo of emotion."--Hart Crane

"As a rule, first books show more bravado than anything else, unless it be tediousness. But there is neither of these qualities in Winesburg, Ohio. . . . These people live and breathe: they are beautiful."--E. M. Forster

"Winesburg, Ohio is an extraordinarily good book. But it is not fiction. It is poetry."--Rebecca West

Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) published 23 books in his lifetime, including the acclaimed Winesburg, Ohio (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics).
Charles E. Modlin is Professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic and a trustee of the Sherwood Andersonliterary estate.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780140186550
ISBN 10	0140186557
Title	Winesburg, Ohio
Author	Sherwood Anderson
Series	Penguin Modern Classics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	1993-01-28
Number of pages	256
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